Sensory systems: seeing the world in a new light.
Most terminally differentiated sensory neurons express a single sensory receptor molecule. A Drosophila photoreceptor organ breaks this rule by switching to expressing a different type of Rhodopsin as it metamorphoses from larva to adult.
Hofmeyer
Kerstin
K
Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine of the Skirball Institute, Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA.
Treisman
Jessica E
JE
D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D008675:Metamorphosis, Biological; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / Q000378:metabolism*; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000378:metabolism*
D012243:Rhodopsin